Profile
Born and raised in country Victoria, I had my first experience coding at the age of 19 building out frontend code for applications and websites that then grew into all facets of the development process. In those 22 years of experience I have been building and working with teams to build solutions for a large breadth of clients. I have led and built technical teams from the ground up working with stakeholders to deliver large scale projects.
I have completed the Harvard leadership principles course in 2022 and look for other ways to advance my skills in management and leadership.
Over the last 3 years I have worked with and built a team of AI researchers and developers creating solutions for clients using open source solutions including training and fine tuning models for fit for purpose tasks.
Work Experience
- Revium, Full Time
Head of JavaScript Development
- Leading a team of 7 direct reports in creating apps and websites for energy providers and large corps
- Upskilling and building up team from 1 to 7 developers and leading new innovations and approaches to development
- Setting, training and upholding coding quality and standards through tooling, PR’s and documentation
- Helping to get buy in from stake holders and clients on various tech stacks and architecture
- Helping to quote and design solutions along side Digital Producers and Business Analysts
- Loyalty Corp, Full Time
Lead front end developer
- Creating bespoke loyalty programs for companies such as Suncorp and Optus
- In charge of building the front end team from scratch
- Introducing coding quality and standards
- Converting code base (Laravel / blade templates) to Vue.js
- Webpack build system creation and maintenance
- Bwired, Full Time
Head of development
- With 5 local and 2 remote workers I led the front end team to build sites using the CoreDna CMS platform • Assigning tasks to team and code reviews
- Refine and make improvements to build processes
- Meeting with clients and scoping projects alongside operations manager
- Webmatrix, Full Time
Senior frontend developer
- Leading builds for projects
- Choosing the frameworks and leading the way with animations and design choices
- Converting email templates and app designs to html
- Introducing build tools
Examples of work
revium.com.au
Using the headless CMS StoryBlok along side a NestJs application the team and I created an AI chatbot that uses OpenAI alongside RAG and other strategies to answer users questions about anything located on the site. We built this as a platform to offer to clients and have seen a lot of positive growth and conversations about the usefulness of AI
gwmanz.com
Using Vercel, Nuxt, Customer IO and Storyblok, my team and I built out the new gwmanz website, picking it up from Acoustic and re platforming to a new headless system.
Technical Experience
- Frontend: JavaScript, React, Vue.js, React Native, CapacitorJS, Nuxt, Next, Webpack, Tailwind, Sass, CSS, HTML, Vite
- Backend: Node.js, PHP, Laravel, NestJs, Express, GraphQL, REST, light python, CrewAI, langchain
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebase
- Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, Vercel, Azure Static Web Apps
- CMS: Kentico, WordPress, Drupal, Dotnetnuke, Contentful, Storyblok, Acoustic
- AI: Groq, Open AI, Azure AI Studio, Stable diffusion, Llama, Qwen, Comfy UI, LibreChat
- Other: Docker, Vagrant, Nginx, Caddy, Figma, Sketch
Contact Me!
If you like what you see here or have any questions feel free to contact me any time, I would be happy to chat and get to know yourself and the company better.
Mobile: 0431099791
Email: christopherjnewton@gmail.com
References available upon request